"I think the idea is now for blacks……" — Dizzy Gillespie
"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."
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24 Quotes by Dizzy Gillespie
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor…
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There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
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The idea of life is to give and receive.
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Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win.…
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You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you…
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There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
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Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
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Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more…
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Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
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Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and…
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Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
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